DAY SHEET BLOG — Metal

COME RAIN OR FLOOD.... 

Last Saturday, DIRTBAGS from all over the U.S. came together under the cold, rainy sky for the wettest, muddiest Michigan Metalfest to date. Don Jamieson (Comedian, That Metal Show) joined us for the day, hopped on stage to introduce BACKLASH (DIRTBAG song contest winners) on the DIRTBAG Stage, and also did a short comedy set on the main stage while the crowd waited to watch TALLAH.

Early in the day, long-time DIRTBAG Artists THE CONVALESCENCE brutalized the stage, throwing bloody hearts, and shooting water rifles into the (already wet) crowd. BACKLASH ripped out an epic 2-part set, which was interrupted by a lightning delay.. but we got a rockin’ on-stage interview of them while we waited for the sky to clear (STAY TUNED).

Due to a series of unfortunate events, the DIRTBAG Stage was shut down mid-day, and our Endorsed Artists, REDEFIND and CASKET ROBBERY were unfortunately unable to perform.

DIRTBAGS showed out in FULL-FORCE at Michigan Metalfest this year. Festival metalheads showed their true grit and love of the genre, as they spun and flipped their soaking wet hair in the cold-pouring rain.. all. day. long.

Dirtbag Mike from The Foundry gets a chance to follow up with Zacky Sickness. They talk about heavy sliced and girthy metal riffs, studio recording and new music for his latest EP titled "Storm the Gates".

Songs for mention are: Will Anyone Be There

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Zacky-Sickness-1852242868237554 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/zackysickness/?hl=en Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/58kNV2ehu00mrwHZBK5GRr Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVA5LOVcSEKnbkBHbntaZlw

Artist Bio: Zacky Sickness started in 2018 after Zack moved back to his hometown of Joseph, OR and couldn’t find a band wanting to do his style of music. Which made him starting to make instrumentals on “Apple Loops” as he worked on his first solo album. At the very end of writing that he looked up “Royalty free heavy metal instrumentals” and found Jacob Lizotte. Zack had him make 2 tracks for his first album, and has been working with him ever since. Creating 2 albums together Now Zack has just released a brand new E.P. With Jacob Lizotte once again handling all the instrumentals and mixing and mastering. The E.P. “Storm the Gates” is once again exploring many different genres and influences in both lyric wise and musically. Zack explored new boundaries with songs such as “Life is Just a Airport” where he challenged himself to write a fun drinking Irish punk song. Zack has said about the song “I’ve gotten comfortable with writing about my depression and anxiety, and often feel if I try to write something happy or uplifting it comes off as corny, so I wanted to challenge myself and make a song that people can party and have a fun time to.” Another song where he tried something new was the song “Zoltar’s Fortune” which is a song about a fortune card he got from a “Zoltar” machine that was eerily accurate to what he was going through in life, and the first verse of the song comes straight from the fortune card he got. Songs like “Storm the Gates” talk about war, while “Will Anyone Be There?” Talks on self doubt and being unmotivated by people ignoring the songs he puts all his effort in, while “The Liars and Thieves” is about the sharks of the music industry, about people who prey on small musicians with broken promises all to get their money.

Dirtbag Mike from The Foundry catches up with the 3-piece power rock trio from Houston, Texas called Honeycutt Southern.

Website - https://www.honeycuttsouthern.com/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/HoneycuttSouthern Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/honeycuttsoutherntx/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/4nT0Q0LJZR3PZ85OXMikm4?si=KR4oqg7NS8u6RPoG0yv2Sw Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC61MejgNDOeD-XGR4xRsHqQ

DIRTBAG CLOTHING will sponsor the FANTASY STAGE at Michigan Metal Fest - 8/13/2022 in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Long-time DIRTBAG DON JAMIESON (Comedian, That Metal Show) will be joining us as our MC on the stage.

DIRTBAG ENDORSED ARTISTS REDEFIND, CASKET ROBBERY, and THE CONVALESCENCE will be performing the festival...

And best of all.......

ONE LUCKY Dirtbag Endorsed Artist will be joining us to perform a live set and receive other great prizes from Dirtbag Clothing and our partners.

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